Failure is always a demoralizing and upsetting experience. You cannot always control whether difficult things happen to you in life
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but you can control, to a large extent, how you react to them.
Failure makes your mind trick you into believing things that aren’t true. Unless you learn to respond to failures in psychologically adaptive ways, they will paralyze you, demotivate you, and limit your likelihood of success going forward.
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